[Papyrus-L] Papyrus under Partition Magic/Commander etc?

[Raisa Deber]

At 07:21 PM 11/5/2003 -0600, you wrote:


>>Raisa,
>
>       Have you used this trick in XP?   I tried virtually this with an XP 
> machine a year ago and it didn't work for me.  I can try it again.

I don't use XP, but a number of my colleagues do.  I think the main issue 
is to avoid a file type which Windows thinks is something else.  (I avoid a 
.lst, for example, because the registry thinks it belongs to another piece 
of software.  And every once in a while, even my .txt files appear to think 
they are images!)  So I don't use the default in setting up the Papyrus 
text file to use as the clipboard, but instead tell it to use a file in my 
Papyrus directory called CITED.TXT.   And I insert it into my word 
processing file (whether I'm using WordPerfect or Windows) through the 
Insert File process, rather than trying anything more elaborate.  Generally 
works.

Where did the problem arise?  Within Papyrus?  Or within the word 
processor?  On the face of things, I'm not sure why XP wouldn't allow 
Papyrus to write to an ASCII text file, and it would then seem relatively 
simple to insert that ASCII file where-ever else you want it to go.  Let me 
know if it works, and if it doesn't, where the problem arises.
Raisa



>>No need to get even this fancy.  Go to Preferences.  Go to OS2/NT 
>>Clipboard.  Tell Papyrus to use a file instead of the clipboard (I use 
>>Cited.Txt).  Then you can easily insert the file.  No need to dual boot 
>>(I used to use Partition Manager).  You can easily cut and paste into 
>>word, or word perfect, or indeed into other programs (such as mail).  I 
>>still haven't figured out how to cut and paste from word to papyrus, but 
>>we won't go there, will we.
>>
>>Now, has anyone figured out what the heck Word has done to its file 
>>format to foul up Papyrus.  A few
>
>=>I'm reluctantly moving to Word more and more. It seems to handle memory 
>for image files better than WP8 and earlier versions.   I haven't hit the 
>big problems with Papyrus yet, but I'm not using a new version, either.
>-John Rodgers
>
>
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Raisa B. Deber, PhD
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
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